Single Idea 21944

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 4. Linguistic Structuralism]

Full Idea

Structuralism in the 1960s was a set of theories which explained human phenomena in terms of underlying unconscious structures, rather than the lived experience described by Phenomenology.

Gist of Idea

Structuralism describes human phenomena in terms of unconscious structures

Source

Gary Gutting (Foucault: a very short introduction [2005], 6)

Book Reference

Gutting,Gary: 'Foucault' [OUP 2005], p.61


A Reaction

Hence the interest in Freud and Marx, and Foucault's interest in history, each offering to unmask what is hidden in consciousness. The unmasking is a basically Kantian project. Cf. Frege's hatred of 'psychologism'.